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NAME : KIM DATE : 15/JUNE WEEK9

How long is King Brown snake?
-> While the King Brown is considered to be a large elapid, size varies accordingly to location but generally speaking they seem to be of a larger size further north with the occasional specimen reaching close to 10 foot in total length.

Who were the first people to live in Australia?
-> Human habitation of Australia is estimated to have begun between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago. These first Australians may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. They may have arrived via landbridges and short sea-crossings from what is now South-East Asia. Most of these people were hunter-gatherers, with a complex oral culture and spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturalists and hunter-gatherers. Their cultural practices have always been distinct from those of the mainland Aborigines.

When were the first boomerangs made?
-> The boomerang was invented between 25,000 to 50,000 years ago. The oldest boomerang, discovered in Poland, is 20,000 years old. It was the first manmade object heavier than air to fly. The first boomerangs were used for hunting and killing.

Where and when was Mel Gibson born?
-> Mel Columcille Gerad Gibson was born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill, New York, USA as the sixth of eleven children to parents Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Ann Gibson, who was born in Australia and died in December of 1990. Though born in the US, Mel and his family moved to New South Wales, Australia.

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